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A protest at the North Carolina legislature Monday night ended with 30 arrests, including a group of women calling themselves the “Raging Grannies.” The action was put on by the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for...

Disgraced former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday was invited back on his pal Joe Scarborough’s MSNBC morning show on voting day in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District and refused to directly answer a question...

A 105-year-old woman from Richland, Texas says that the key to long life is bacon. Pearl Cantrell’s love of bacon is so strong that the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile made a stop through town last week to wish her a happy birthday, all because...

A trip down the conspiracy theory rabbit-hole — if that even is a rabbit, and not a groundhog in a costume — had Stephen Colbert convinced on Monday that the threat of a federal ammunition buyout was real. And it wasn’t...

Three young women who had been missing for a decade — two of whom disappeared as teenagers — have been found alive in a house in Cleveland, police in the US state of Ohio said. The dramatic discovery drew hundreds of cheering people...

On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart lampooned the National Rifle Association meeting in Texas. Many of the speakers at the event over the weekend appeared to forget what the NRA was about and talked about topics like...

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Monday suggested that big banks were not afraid of skirting the law because they didn’t believe law enforcement would target them. But he plans to change that. Schneiderman announced a...

Famous Star Trek alumni George Takei warned that opponents of marriage equality threaten to destroy society in a 1950s-esque public service announcement published Monday. The satirical video profiles Dale, a sick and troubled foe of same-sex...

Lawmakers in the Texas House on Monday will give final approval to a bundle of 12 radically pro-gun bills (PDF), clearing the way for guns to be brought onto school campuses and into classrooms by students and teachers. All the bills were easily...

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday defended an Ecuadorian preacher’s homophobic comments and said that LGBT people could change their “orientation,” just like God could change murderers and rapists. The Huffington Post...

An NBC affiliate in Missouri shot 9mm rounds into a athletic cup filled with red dye to prove that men’s groins were susceptible to bullets without additional armor. KDSK reported that Jeremiah Raber had spent about $100,000 of his own...

Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint on Monday said that he opposed a bipartisan plan for comprehensive immigration reform because “unlawful immigrants” could live “another 50 years” and take advantage of government...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Sunday that he believes rejecting LGBT people is similar to fighting slavery during the pre-Civil War era. Appearing on the Family Research Council‘s program “Stand With Scouts Sunday,” the arch...

The nonprofit group that created the world’s first 3-D-printed gun on Sunday proved that the weapon could be fired. In a YouTube video published by Defense Distributed, 3-D-printed gun creator Cody Wilson fires a single shot from...

A group of students at the University of Southern California is holding a sit-in Monday afternoon to protest what they call racial profiling by Los Angeles police at a graduation party on Saturday. “Most people were dispersing and...